African Peanut Soup

Total Time: 50 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 35 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 8
• 1 (64 ounce) can low sodium chicken broth
• 1 (16 1/2 ounce) can coconut milk
• 1 (29 ounce) can diced tomatoes
• 2 tablespoons diced garlic
• 1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil
• 1 1/2 lbs chicken tenderloins, cut into bit sized pieces
• 2 medium potatoes, diced
• 1 medium sweet potato, diced
• 1 cup baby carrots, cut in thirds on the diagonal
• 1 large yellow sweet onion, diced
• 1 tablespoon garam masala
• 1 teaspoon ground cayenne pepper (optional)
• 1/2 cup creamy peanut butter
• 1 teaspoon salt, to taste
• 1 teaspoon pepper, to taste (black pepper can be used)

Recipe

• 1 heat olive oil in the pan, add onions and minced garlic.
• 2 as soon as the onions begin to sweat, add chicken. turn up heat to medium-high and begin browning the chicken.
• 3 add potatoes, sweet potato, and carrots. cook for 2 minutes, stirring.
• 4 add diced tomatoes, garam masala, and coconut milk.
• 5 reduce heat and simmer for 5 minutes, then add chicken broth.
• 6 add salt and pepper, to taste.
• 7 bring to boil, reduce heat to medium low and simmer for 20 minutes (until potatoes are tender).
• 8 add peanut butter and simmer on low for 5 additional minutes.
• 9 you can carefully mash a couple of the potatoes to thicken soup if you want to serve over rice or just ladle the soup into a bowl and dip a nice crusty bread. enjoy!
• 10 optional: garnish with something green and fresh, like sliced green onions, cabbage, parsley and/or add chopped peanuts.